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Design Week
9 November 2000

  • Agency candidates come at a considerable cost

    9 November 2000

    We have recently advertised in Design Week for a senior packaging designer and have had a number of interesting applications. In addition, the ad attracted the attention of a number of recruitment agencies, who have also put forward some candidates.

  • Agenda gets a piece of Action

    9 November 2000

  • Bishop takes top Metrius role

    9 November 2000

    KPMG Consulting's new e-business consultancy Metrius Europe has appointed former Icon Medialab creative director Paul Bishop to head its experience and design department.

  • Blast from the past

    9 November 2000

    Art is Work showcases work by graphics star Milton Glaser. But his work looks the same as it did 25 years ago, says designer Michael Johnson.

  • Bovine art exhibition set to stampede London

    9 November 2000

    The streets of London will be crawling with cows next summer as CowParade 2001 hits the capital. This public art exhibition was started three years ago in Switzerland which is home, presumably, to an abundance of cows.

  • Brown ID/ KSDP merger deal

    9 November 2000

    Brown ID is to be merged with South Africa-based multidisciplinary design group KSDP, following KSDP's acquisition by Brown ID's listed parent company Tempus Group.

  • Call for entries

    9 November 2000

    Institute of Packaging's Student Starpack Design Awards 2001

  • Czech deal for Deepgroup

    9 November 2000

    Deepgroup is planning to open a Deepend Prague office in the Czech Republic next year, in conjunction with Czech digital media group Sorcererware. The office will transform itself to become the seventh Deepend studio and comes at a time of general interest in the former Eastern Bloc state.

  • Czech guaranteed market

    9 November 2000

    Until just over a decade ago, free enterprise didn't exist in socialist Czechoslovakia. Clare Dowdy investigates today's maturing Czech market and the client opportunities for UK design groups

  • Design chiefs' plea for tax breaks in Budget

    9 November 2000

  • Design group Astwood compose ads for charity

    9 November 2000

  • Design pay still above average

    9 November 2000

    Design professionals' salaries have continued to rise above average, with anticipated earnings still at 6 per cent for the next 12 months.The earnings rate, unchanged from last year, is reported in our annual Design Week salary survey for design consultancies.

  • Dew Gibbons to reveal new Aristoc packaging

    9 November 2000

    London branding and corporate specialist Dew Gibbons has been appointed to create the brand packaging redesign for hosiery and lingerie manufacturer Aristoc, following a four-way credentials pitch against unnamed consultancies.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    A report by Forrester Research estimates that the emerging retail market for downloadable music, which will create opportunities for design groups, will be worth £300m in the UK by 2005.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    Design Week's annual digital media survey is now underway. If you have not received a copy of the questionnaire and would like to, please call the editorial department on 020 7970 6666 or send an e-mail to design-week@centaur.co.uk. The survey is compiled by Natalie Spencer and Mike Exon. If you receive calls about another dotcoms survey from Tristan Ives of BB&A, purporting to be from Design Week, do not respond. He has no connection with Design Week.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    London digital media group Digit has created a website, www.tbwa-ggt.com, for direct marketing agency TBWA/ GGT Direct. The navigation concept involves a taxi ride through London, which passes by landmarks including the London Eye, BT Tower and Chinatown.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    Digital media group Oyster Partners has appointed David Warner as its creative director. The US-born Warner has worked with Razorfish and Boo.com.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    British artist Richard Wentworth has designed The Looking Shelf for Tate Shops, which is one of a series of specially-commissioned artists' products.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    London design group Four IV has created the packaging, identity and in-store graphics for a range of Hawkshead clothing.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    Intro has designed a 'science meets art' website for the British Council at www.culturelab-uk.co.uk. It features a variety of projects supported by the council, and is divided into seven categories.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    Alsop & Stormer's design for the Peckham Library has won this year's £20 000 Stirling Prize for Architecture, sponsored by the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    The Lord Mayor of London, Clive Martin, this week hosted a lunch for top designers at London's Mansion House. The aim of Britain Creates is to place the creative industries 'at the heart of British business initiatives abroad and their successes acknowledged at home', according to a statement from the Lord Mayor's office.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    In Design Week's 6 October issue the Barloworld identity, designed by Trademark Design's London office, was printed incorrectly. This is the correct version.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    Browns has designed the advertising campaign for next year's D&AD Student Awards, using the theme 'paths'. Deliberately ambiguous, the set of four posters has been created with photographer Davy Jones.

  • Digest

    9 November 2000

    The BBC is transforming its central London headquarters at Broadcasting House into a 'state-of-the-art centre' by 2008, with architect MacCormac Jamieson Prichard. But it confirms it is too early to start approaching design groups.

  • Discover learns Identica lesson

    9 November 2000

  • Dyson plots revolution for washing machines

    9 November 2000

  • Ericsson T20 keeps 'Internet time'

    9 November 2000

  • Eva-Maria Riegler wins London Photographic Awards

    9 November 2000

  • Events

    9 November 2000

    Talent Match; National Association of Shopfitters

  • Exhibition

    9 November 2000

    Brian Griffiths and Kenji Yanobe; Common Worship 2000; The British Airways London Eye; Creative Futures; British Design & Art Direction

  • Flextech Telewest opts for in-house rebrand

    9 November 2000

    Merging cable and TV broadcaster Flextech Telewest will not be employing a brand consultancy to create its forthcoming new identity, following its rejection of Wolff Olins' design concepts in September.

  • Free-pitching remains a controversial issue

    9 November 2000

    The free-pitch debate has raged all the time I have been in the profession (to give you some idea, I can remember England winning the World Cup).

  • Future Dates

    9 November 2000

  • Grinyer has potential to be a strong champion

    9 November 2000

    One of the significant aspects of the Design Council's new directorship - and the main reason given by Clive Grinyer for accepting it - is the link it makes between design and innovation (see News, page 5).

  • Halifax picks below-the-line four

    9 November 2000

    Halifax has created a roster of four design consultancies to work on its below-the-line activities.

  • Hill Rae Smith raises Evelina Appeal profile

    9 November 2000

  • Hugh Pearman: Radio-cassette therapy

    9 November 2000

  • Jim Naughten

    9 November 2000

  • Judging a book by its 'fashionable' cover

    9 November 2000

  • Kid's stuff

    9 November 2000

    How do you create toys that satisfy kids, their parents and safety standards?

  • Michael Danner

    9 November 2000

  • MinTat brews interiors scheme for Boho bar

    9 November 2000

  • New structure at Razorfish

    9 November 2000

    International digital media consultancy Razorfish confirms it has a new internal structure in place following the laying off of 18 employees, including designers, from its London office. The redundancies follow a series of individual performance reviews last month.

  • Northern museums look to Event

    9 November 2000

    Displays at two high-profile museums in the north of England which are struggling for funding are to be designed by London museum and exhibition specialist Event Communications.

  • Paul Murphy

    9 November 2000

  • Post for Grinyer at Design Council

    9 November 2000

  • Precedent takes the Tube on to the Web

    9 November 2000

  • Rick Guest

    9 November 2000

  • Second nature

    9 November 2000

    Specialist photographers are being asked to broaden their scope because their clients are looking for images with a fresh perspective.

  • Steady Climb

    9 November 2000

    A scarcity of quality design staff has pushed up salaries this year, and performance related pay is also playing a bigger part.

  • The Bank of England redesigns the £10 note

    9 November 2000

  • The green, green grass of Trafalgar Square

    9 November 2000

    In preparation for the launch of its latest client project, the London office of Navy Blue is bringing a touch of the outdoors to a central London church by turfing the crypt at St Martin in the Fields on Trafalgar Square.

  • The sky's the limit for Kinneir Dufort

    9 November 2000

    Bristol product design group Kinneir Dufort has decided not to move offices in order to house its rapidly expanding workforce, and is instead going to raise the roof at its existing site - a city-centre building which was formerly a Victorian sugar refinery.

  • Therefore seeks design staff on interactive side

    9 November 2000

    London product design group Therefore is looking to expand its newly-launching interactive division, with "broadminded, creative" full-time and freelance interactive digital designers.

  • There's no substituting the user experience in design

    9 November 2000

    It's interesting seeing the link or similarities emerging between the 3D/ industrial product development (architecture included) and the applications/ solutions/ products/ software/ devices that we deliver to our clients in the Internet environment.

  • Turner to move to Enterprise IG

    9 November 2000

    Jon Turner is to join Enterprise IG as executive creative director in the London office when he quits The Body Shop at the end of the month. The job makes him a member of two Enterprise IG boards and eligible for election to a third.

  • Vox Pop

    9 November 2000

    Last week Design Council chairman Christopher Frayling outlined 'The six heresies' which are facing the design community (News Analysis, DW 3 November). These, he says, are: the phrase 'creative industries' pigeon-holing design; a lack of recognition of the roles played by non-creatives in the profession; using design as a quick-fix remedy; design being perceived at large as youth, makeovers and short-term styling; brand owners littering the 'brandscape'; the Design Council being ...

  • Wolford tries Circle interiors

    9 November 2000

    London design group Circle has redesigned the concession for leg and bodywear brand Wolford, within London's Harrods department store. Its design aims to reflect the Wolford brand position, at the premium end of the hosiery market.

  • Work/ Boxhill's East End show

    9 November 2000

  • WTS becomes 'a brand agency'

    9 November 2000

    Wickens Tutt Southgate has boosted its senior line-up and changed its name to reflect a shift of emphasis from pure design to brand communications across all platforms.

  • X-rated

    9 November 2000

    John Cooper can't wait for this weekend's Board-X festival, a snowboarders' show which, he reckons, stands head and shoulders above the rest.

  • Ziggy Stardust sponsors Brit Art lucky dip

    9 November 2000

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